Genetically-modified foods are increasingly recognised as one of the indispensable tools in the world’s fight against starvation in the face of poplation growth that once again is outstripping food production….
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For my October 16th ROB column in the Globe and Mail I wrote about why Canadians in particular need a productivity revolution, where we are most likely to find it,…
In my Economy Lab column for the October 2nd edition of the Globe and Mail’s ROB I vent my ire on VW for their cheating scandal over diesel engines. After…
“Stimulus” is one of those words thrown around with gay abandon by politicians, especially dutring election campaigns, thinking they know what it means. In my column for the 18 September…
At the exact moment where Canada is risking its spot at the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations in a quixotic effort to buttress supply management, the EU, that bastion of neo-liberalism, is…
Donald Trump isn’t just a bombastic windbag. He’s an economic crank, most obviously in his claim that America has weakened itself by allowing manufacturing to go to China. He promises…
In my column for the July 24th edition of the Globe I ruminate on the vulnerabilities that technology creates to various forms of hacking, data theft and cyber attacks, lamenting…
In the so-called Great Game, in which Western powers seek through espionage as well as soft and hard power to counter the influence of disruptors and adversaries like Russia, Greece…
In my July 26th column for the ROB’s Economy Lab feature in the Globe I point out that in his recent encyclical on climate change Pope Francis wants to suck…
All the data show that there is no alternative to road transport for getting people around, including in the big cities. Indeed the share of people travelling exclusively by car…